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Rick Marshall (Ferrell), who calls himself a quantum paleontologist, has been working on a tachyon meter - it looks like a boom box - that will puncture the space-time continuum. The world laughs at Rick, perhaps because he loves show tunes. But someone believes in him: sexy British scientist Holly Cantrell (Anna Friel), who has found the imprint of his lighter in a rock that's millions of years old. She takes him to the desert area where she found it, and after bumping into the obligatory rude dude, a souvenir salesman named Will (Danny McBride), they all go sliding down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land of the Lost: Delusions of Manhood | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...talk about tachyon emissions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kate Mulgrew | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...Tachyon emissions are the most powerful subspace emissions. So I just pretend my husband is the ship. And we go to impulse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kate Mulgrew | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...spell this tachyon thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kate Mulgrew | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...achieve immortality. Feinberg thinks that psychic transmissions may one day be linked to as yet un discovered elementary particles, so-called mindons or psychons. Other scientists, however, give less credence to such will-o'-the-wisps than they give to another conjectured particle championed by Feinberg: the tachyon, which always travels faster than the speed of light, the theoretical speed limit of the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT MAN-iv: Reaching Beyond the Rational | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

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